Word: edwin
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...break her own world record and win Olympic gold. Ben Johnson of Canada once again proved that he is the fastest man on earth by setting a new world record of 9.79 in the 100 meters. Florence Griffith Joyner won going away in the women's 100 meters. But Edwin Moses, heavily favored in the 400-meter hurdles, ran a poor third and lost his grip on a sport that he has dominated for a decade...
...terms of maturity, though, time seemed to tell at last on Edwin Moses, 33, who lost his bid for a third gold medal in the 400-meter hurdles. Moses, who freely admits that he is an old man in a young man's sport, won his first gold medal in Montreal, his second in Los Angeles, and had the U.S. not boycotted the 1980 Olympics, might have won three straight. But the owner of track's longest win streak, who got off to a good start this time, seemed to run out of gas in the last 100 meters. Just...
Senior Correspondents: Mary Cronin, Murray J. Gart (Special Projects); Hays Gorey, Lee Griggs, William McWhirter, J. Madeleine Nash, Edwin M. Reingold, Frederick Ungeheuer, Bruce van Voorst...
...know. To be able to reach for something you've been striving for for a long time. I feel good." Showing twice as much leg as usual, the whirlwind Florence Griffith Joyner won her 100, and if she missed her record she hardly cared. History's hurdler, Edwin Moses, turned over the stage to a tearful Andre Phillips and left the world to marvel at his last twelve years...
...children of South Korea danced a delightful welcome for nearly 10,000 sportsmen from 160 countries on parade. Someone thought of limiting the marchers in the interest of time, but the athletes screamed. "You're not in the Olympics if you don't march," said the U.S. hurdler Edwin Moses, who smiled sadly when the first impulse of the American team was to threaten a boycott of the opening scene. Boycott isn't usually an athlete's word. "I still miss 1980," Moses said. "Marching into Moscow would have been thrilling...